The Buckets by Greg Cravens for January 14, 2014

Ohhhh…just let Toby figure out a strategy for improvement. Then make him present it at dinner.

Hand-Wringing! Parenting strategy for the past few thousand years! That, and telling the kids they have it so easy. I picture parents three or four thousand years ago telling their children about how goats were so much easier to milk these days, and how bad plagues “used to be when I was young… we had ’em every two or three weeks, and we still had to go out and placate the river goblins and herd the animals even when we were dying…” Parents back then were OLD, too. Seventeen or eighteen. Middle aged fuddy duddies.

There’s modern life again!Makes me wanna go back to ’57 and move in with Sam Bowden…

Dain Bramaged eh? I’m gonna have to use that.

Good idea Larry.

How about a, “Hi Honey! How was your day?” or a please at least.

Poor worn out Larry. He obviously didn’t recover well from yesterday’s Monday Blues.xxx

I’ve always liked the phrase “dain bramage” (and its various forms). Thanks for the smile.

Time to take the I-phone back, lock up the video games, and put the computer in the living room where you can monitor that it’s being used for homework. He can earn them back.